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The US is home to lots of more responsible fashion brands working to improve the fashion industry, and we’ve rounded up some of the top-rated ones to help you make better choices when you’re shopping. Read on for 60 more ethical brands from the United States.
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Sustainability is becoming increasingly important and more and more people are trying to reduce their impact on the planet. As a result, a growing number of responsible fashion brands are starting to emerge to both meet the demand and help change the fashion industry for the better. So if you live in the US, you might be wondering which clothing brands are doing it right.
We know how you feel, which is why we compiled this list of more ethical and sustainable clothing brands from the US. These 60 conscious brands have all been rated “Good” or “Great” using our first-class methodology and are amongst our favourites. American-made, organic, vegan, female-founded, Fair Trade. Whatever you’re looking for, we’ve got you covered.
What makes a better brand?
Simply put, a more sustainable brand makes sure it has a positive impact in every aspect of its work.
Good On You rates brands on their policies and actions across three key sustainability pillars: people, planet, and animals.
Among the many things we look at (there are 100 key issues), is evidence that a brand’s workers are treated fairly across the supply chain, including policies and practices on child labour, forced labour, worker safety, the right to join a union, and payment of a living wage. We also look at resource and energy management, whether a brand is actively reducing its carbon emissions, managing its impact on our waterways, and using and disposing of chemicals safely.
Finally, we analyse the use of animal products like wool, leather, fur, angora, down feather, shearling, karakul, and exotic animal skin and hair. Ideally, the brand is 100% vegan.
We give each brand an overall rating which you’ll see throughout this list, but you can find out more about a brand’s rating on our directory.
- California, LA, and New York
- Canada
- Europe, Germany (including Berlin), Belgium, Spain and Portugal, Italy (including Milan), France (and Paris), the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, and Switzerland
- the UK (and brands from London)
- Australia and New Zealand
- India
- Japan
Our favourite more sustainable clothing brands from the USA
Proclaim
Los Angeles-based Proclaim makes beautiful bras, underwear, and basics from more responsible materials like recycled plastic bottles and TENCEL. Its designs come in three shades of “nude”, building inclusivity into the brand. It also ensures the people in its California factory earn a living wage, and visits suppliers regularly.
Find the range in sizes S-3XL.
Katla
With a modern aesthetic where style meets sustainability, Katla is a loungewear brand creating timeless essentials across menswear, womenswear, and kidswear. Stemming from its ethos to minimise fashion’s impact on the environment, it follows anti-waste manufacturing principles in its limited production runs. Using innovative, lower-impact materials, it draws design inspiration from its Nordic roots offering luxurious conscious comfort.
Find the range in sizes 2XS-XL.
Harvest & Mill
Harvest & Mill pieces are grown, milled, and sewn exclusively in the US, supporting American organic cotton farmers and local sewing communities. The brand makes basics for everyone, always ensuring they are not dyed or bleached, greatly reducing the use of water, energy, and dye materials. Even better, by cultivating different varieties of cotton, the brand is able to bolster biodiversity, which is essential for ensuring healthy ecosystems and keeping our planet resilient in the face of climate change.
Shop the range in sizes S-XL.
Miakoda
If you’re all about that organic plant-based lifestyle, then you’ll most certainly vibe with NYC-made brand Miakoda and its organic, ultra-cosy active and loungewear. Its pieces include stripped-back colours and designs that are all about comfort.
Supportive of different shapes and sizes, find the range in XS-4XL.
Parker Clay
A bag that saves lives? You got it. Parker Clay is an American based brand looking to create a future without exploitation by bettering lives and communities in Ethiopia. The brand has partnered with Ellilta Women at Risk program, fighting to bring women out of prostitution by providing a more stable income and safe working environment. Parker Clay also helps preserve traditional Ethiopian techniques, materials, and styles, ensuring that this fast growing country is able to remain close to its beautiful roots.
Neococo
Neococo is a mission-based apparel company founded for the sole purpose of creating jobs for women refugees through the art of hand embroidery. Faced with challenges such as adjusting to a new culture and securing a job, Neococo provides refugees with community and support to make them feel safe and achieve financial independence.
Crafting pieces representing women’s empowerment, find the range in sizes XS-3XL.
Toad&Co
Toad&Co is a US brand working in a more socially and environmentally minded way. Its women’s and menswear is equally suited for the rigours of the trail or the tavern.
Most items are available in sizes XS-2XL.
ABLE
ABLE is a US-based clothing and accessories brand that works with communities all over the world to make a meaningful impact, producing slow fashion that pays a living wage to women who have faced extraordinary circumstances. It uses lower-impact materials, and reuses water and materials to minimise waste. With thoughtful design and a level of quality that guarantees its products for life, its pieces aren’t just an investment for your wardrobe, they are an investment in women around the world.
Find the range in sizes 2XS-2XL.
FUTURA Jewelry
FUTURA Jewelry is a New York based responsible jewellery brand. Each piece of FUTURA Jewelry is handcrafted with mercury-free 18kt Certified Fairmined Ecological gold. The brand’s gold comes from the three certified Fairmined mines in the world that mine for gold without the use of toxic chemicals including mercury and cyanide.
Yes And
Yes And is a US brand loved for its prints and comfortable jersey basics. It uses non-toxic dyes and lower-impact materials including organic cotton and TENCEL Lyocell.
Most items are available in sizes XS-XL.
KENT
KENT is a US-based brand that creates timeless organic underwear, ensuring a quality fit and feel no matter what. It produces the first verified compostable underwear, made from organic cotton and designed to return to nature in 90 days when composted or planted, feeding the soil and growing new plants (or future pants).
Find most pants in sizes XS-3XL.
Mightly
Mightly makes organic cotton and fair trade certified children’s tees, leggings, dresses, pyjamas, hoodies, and more. Its facilities are Fair Trade USA certified and made from a high proportion of eco-friendly materials including Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) cotton.
Terra Thread
Terra Thread makes backpacks, bags and apparel using lower impact materials, including GOTS and fairtrade certified organic cotton, and its suppliers are all Fair Trade certified.
TORRAIN
US-based TORRAIN creates upcycled bags designed with travel and adventure in mind. The brand reuses feedbags, which are durable, lightweight, water-resistant, and colourful. According to the brand, these bags are the perfect material to upcycle into products for travel and outdoor adventure, keeping them out of landfills.
WE-AR4

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WE-AR4 is a US based design-to-wear essentials brand for an effortless style. Founded by fashion industry veterans, it merges intelligent design and uncompromising style. Rather than developing new materials, it rescues existing ones, choosing to “thrift” high-quality leathers and luxury textiles left over from other brands, giving them new life, and uses certified lower-impact materials.
Find the range in sizes XS-L.
Sustain by Kat
Sustain by Kat produces timeless organic women’s and children’s clothing, dyed with plants. This is a brand that really cares about the environment. It uses more responsible materials, including GOTS certified organic cotton, and uses only lower impact, plant based dyes, which is better for you and the planet. It’s possible to have clothes that also care for you with Sustain by Kat’s “clothing with a conscience”.
Find the range in sizes XS-XL.
Nui Organics
Nui Organics was founded on a culture of consciousness, community, and intentional design. It creates high-quality, lower-impact Merino wool and organic clothing for families in timeless styles.
Find sizes for children aged 0-12 years, and XS-2XL for adults.
Lâcher Prise
Lâcher Prise is a US-based vegan brand that creates a range of versatile clothing, basics, and underwear. Lâcher Prise rates “Great” for the planet: it uses lower-impact materials including organic cotton, which helps limit the chemicals, water, and wastewater in its supply chain.
Find most items in sizes S-XL.
LA Relaxed
“Simplicity, sustainability, style” is LA Relaxed’s motto. The brand reduces its climate impact by using renewable energy in its supply chain. It also uses some lower-impact materials, including organic cotton and TENCEL Lyocell.
Find the collection in sizes XS-XL.
Christy Dawn
Christy Dawn is a minimalist showroom for vintage-inspired women’s clothing and footwear, locally made with surplus fabric. The US brand rates “Great”, making it a fabulous option for your wardrobe.
Find the clothes in standard sizes XS-XL, or shop the Extended and Petite collections.
Bario Neal
Bario Neal is a custom jewellery designer that creates handmade rings and fine jewellery with conflict-free diamonds and other gemstones. The brand uses lower-impact materials, including reclaimed precious metals, Fairmined gold, and more ethically sourced stones to bring to life each of its uniquely designed pieces.
ALTER X Company
US brand ALTER X Company crafts apparel that finds its true meaning and potential when a person of purpose decides to be the change they want to see in the world. Each purchase donates 20% to a cause of your choice at checkout.
Find the range in sizes XS-2XL.
MATE the Label
MATE the Label creates clean essentials made with GOTS certified organic fabrics and lower-impact dyes. Its goal is to offer women everywhere a clean product that is just as beautiful as it is responsible. It is proudly female-founded and is predominately operated by women. This US brand also manufactures locally to reduce its carbon footprint.
Find the range in inclusive sizes XS-3XL.
Minimalist
Anchored in timeless design, Minimalist is a curated collection of women’s ready-to-wear pieces all made in New York and designed to be recycled at their end of life. It seeks to be part of the solution to make fashion more sustainable, using certified lower-impact materials and ensuring fair wage and work conditions in the local New York City factories it supports.
Find it in sizes XS-L.
Subset (Knickey)
Made in a Fairtrade certified factory, US brand Subset’s organic cotton underwear sets are some of the best in the responsible fashion market. Taking it a step further, the brand has also partnered with an NYC non-profit to recycle old undergarments, turning the fibres into insulation and rug pads. Sending in your old undies will not only help cut down on the amount of fibres that wind up in the landfill, but it’ll give you the freedom to buy new, responsibly made sets.
Find most items in sizes 2XS-4XL.
HYER GOODS
HYER GOODS is an NY-based, leather goods label that curates handmade products including handbags, wallets, and accessories. By upcycling “trash” it eliminates the massive energy footprint needed to cultivate land, livestock, crops, and fertilisers, while simultaneously reducing the amount of waste being sent to landfill. Less energy and less pollution mean fewer greenhouse gases.
SEPTEMBER
SEPTEMBER was created by passionate surfer and designer, Erika Seiko Togashi, who noticed the lack of timeless, elegant, and more sustainable surf and swimwear in the industry. Founded on modernist design principles, pieces are made using luxury Italian recycled fabrics in a small, female owned factory in Bali, delivering high-performing, timeless classics made fairly.
Find the range in sizes XS-2XL.
Altar
Altar is a US-based boutique that specialises in alternative and custom fashion, apothecary, and gifts. The brand celebrates independent manufacturers and artists from across North America, with a focus on the stories that are woven into their work. Its clothing brand, Altar Houseline, is proudly made in America using deadstock materials.
Find most of Altar Houseline’s items in sizes S-6XL.
Happy Earth
Happy Earth Apparel is a US organic clothing brand that is inspired by nature and dedicated to preserving it. Through its partnerships with non-profits and Happy Earth ambassadors, it’s planting trees, fighting climate change, and cleaning up trash.
Find most items in sizes XS-3XL.
Threads 4 Thought
Threads 4 Thought uses a range of lower-impact materials including TENCEL™ Modal harvested from the limbs of beech trees. This process means that the trees are never cut down and 95% of the production materials to make the yarn are recovered and reused. The brand’s manufacturers are a combination of Fair Trade USA certified and Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production certified.
Find the range in sizes XS-XL, with an extended sizing range up to 3XL.
Outerknown
Founded by surf champion Kelly Slater, Outerknown is a more responsible brand that aims to blend style and function with the protection of natural resources. The brand is Bluesign certified and has partnered with the Fair Labour Association.
Find the range in sizes XS-2XL.
Conscious Step
Conscious Step creates premium fair trade, organic vegan socks and clothes which support great charities. The US brand is committed to lasting social and environmental change and every step it takes in its production process supports farms and factories with fair wages, safe facilities, and lower-impact materials.
The socks come in S-L sizes, and the clothes in 2XS-2XL.
WAMA
WAMA is pioneering the hemp clothing industry with premium hemp underwear. It uses a high proportion of more responsible materials including organic cotton and hemp, and is a PETA approved vegan company.
Find the range in inclusive sizes XS-4XL.
ARTICLE22
Every piece of ARTICLE22 jewellery is locally handcrafted in Laos using recycled materials from Vietnam War bombs, plane parts, military hardware, and other aluminium scraps. The brand embodies the innovation that the fashion industry needs more of—using recycled materials to produce beautiful globally marketable products, while equipping local artisans with new skill sets and providing them with a sustainable source of income. ARTICLE22 gives back to clear more unexploded bombs in Laos, supports traditional artisans, and donates a proportion of profit to community development for workers.
The range is available in sizes S-XL.
Whimsy + Row
Whimsy + Row is a US-based lifestyle brand born out of a love for quality goods and responsible practices. Since 2014, its mission has been to provide ease and elegance for the modern woman. Whimsy + Row utilises deadstock fabric, and by limiting each garment to short runs, the brand also reduces packaging waste and takes care of precious water resources.
Find most products in XS-XL, with an extended sizing range up to 3XL.
Vitamin A
Made locally in California, Vitamin A’s collections of swimwear and loungewear use a high proportion of lower-impact materials, including recycled nylon. The brand also uses a waterless process to print its designs with, reducing its chemical and water usage.
Find the pieces in sizes XS-XL.
Seek Collective
Seek Collective is a US brand of thoughtfully made items with a dedication to transparency, authenticity, craft, and sustainability. Seek is focused on establishing connections between art, product, consumers, process, and makers. Its items are made in India through partnerships with like-minded communities and people.
Find most products in XS-L, with an extended sizing range up to 4XL.
Triarchy
US-based Triarchy creates more sustainable jeans, skirts, shorts, jumpsuits, and jackets. The brand’s production system uses 85% recycled water by consistently reusing the “thick indigo laden sludge” that unmonitored factories dump into water systems.
Find most of the jeans in US sizes 24-32.
Natasha Tonic
Natasha Tonic’s hemp swimwear fabric is based around a natural hemp fibre that is antimicrobial, UV resistant, durable, and a healthier choice for your skin and our oceans. Even better, each piece is printed by hand, so no two are alike.
Find its swimwear in sizes XS-XL.
Purusha People
Purusha People adds dainty details to its range of activewear. The organic plant-based pieces will wick away sweat and keep your practice at that perfect level of “chill”.
Purusha pieces are stocked in sizes XS-4XL.
Pico

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Classic, soft organic cotton jersey underwear. Cut and sewn by the team in southern India using organic cotton sourced from farmers’ cooperative. Exclusive 15% off with code PICO15 (First order only.) (Ends: 12 DEC)
Checkout code: PICO15
Pico designs beautifully soft organic and fair-trade cotton underwear for both men and women. The British brand is fully vegan and all its products are Fairtrade International – Small Producers Organisations certified.
Find the designs in sizes XS-XL.
HarperSage
HarperSage is a responsible lifestyle brand for womenswear, making dresses, tops, pants, and more. It’s on a mission to create clothes responsibly, empowering women by partnering with a woman-owned SEDEX certified factory in India and using lower-impact materials that are completely vegan.
Find the range in sizes XS-XL.
LOVETRUST
LOVETRUST creates effortless, more sustainably made clothes in its SMETA-certified facilities using the finest organic cotton.
Find most items offered in sizes XS-2XL.
FM 669
FM 669 is a US brand that offers apparel made from homegrown cotton, including t-shirts, tank tops, and long-sleeve shirts. It proudly sources its GOTS-certified cotton from a collective of farms in Texas using regenerative practices, and uses lower-impact dyes in its limited production runs. Its designs are effortlessly wearable, with its laid-back, casual aesthetic in gender-neutral pieces.
Offered in sizes XS-L.
SANTICLER
SANTICLER is an US-based label that offers timeless collectors pieces curating modern silhouettes in womenswear. Founded by an early advocate of slow fashion and sustainability, its collections are designed and produced with intention to reduce waste, using more lower-impact materials such as GOTS-certified cotton and responsibly sourced wool.
Find most items offered in sizes XS-L.
Printfresh
US-based Printfresh was founded in 2016 by textile designer and fashion entrepreneur Amy Voloshin and her husband (and business partner) Leo Voloshin. A majority woman-owned business, Printfresh is a collection of sleepwear, apparel, and lifestyle items inspired by plants, animals, and home décor.
Find Printfresh pieces in sizes 2XS-6XL.
Editor's note
Feature image by Girlfriend Collective, all other images via brands mentioned. Good On You publishes the world’s most comprehensive ratings of fashion and beauty brands’ impact on people, the planet, and animals. Use our directory to search thousands of rated brands.
We updated this article on 27 November 2025. Our editors frequently make updates to articles to ensure they’re up to date. We refreshed our round-up to ensure it reflects brands with recent ratings.
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